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Louisiana Tort Law

Louisiana Tort Law


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Publisher :LexisNexis
Format: 1 volume , BOOK

ISBN: 9780327163602

2010
 
$193.00
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    Thoroughly updated and available in looseleaf format, Lousiana Tort Law is the first book to treat comprehensively tort theory and practice in Louisiana. Cited over 140 times in Louisiana case law and law reviews over the last 4 years, the publication provides discussion and analysis of all significant post-1996 jurisprudence on Louisiana's civil justice reform. Covering all major areas of tort theory and practice in the state, the authors include detailed coverage of intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, absolute liability, and defenses.

    Summary Table of Contents
    Chapter 1 The Nature of Tort Liability in Louisiana
    Chapter 2 Intentional Torts and Defenses
    Chapter 3 Negligence - General Overview
    Chapter 4 Cause-In-Fact
    Chapter 5 Duty: General and Specific Risks
    Chapter 6 Breach
    Chapter 7 Damages
    Chapter 8 Proving Fault
    Chapter 9 Defenses to Negligence: The Victim's Substandard Conduct
    Chapter 10 Prescription and Peremption
    Chapter 11 Immunity
    Chapter 12 Multiple Tortfeasors and Solidary Liability
    Chapter 13 Vicarious Liability
    Chapter 14 Strict Liability
    Chapter 15 Product Liability
    Chapter 16 Absolute Liability
    Chapter 17 Landowner, Lessor, & Lessee Liability
    Chapter 18 Wrongful Death and Survival Actions
    Chapter 19 Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
    Chapter 20 Intentional Inference with Contract
    Chapter 21 Negligent Provision of Services (Malpractice)
    Chapter 22 Conflicts of Law in Louisiana Tort Cases

     

    Maraist, Frank L.


    Frank L. Maraist is the Nolan J. Edwards Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. Professor Maraist received his B.A. from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1951, his J.D. from LSU in 1958, and an L.L.M. from Yale University in 1969. A practicing attorney from 1958-1968, Professor Maraist was Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi from 1969-1973 before joining the LSU faculty in 1974. He has been a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, the University of Texas, Tulane University, and Washington University in St. Louis. From 1985-1995, Professor Maraist was Executive Director of the Louisiana Judicial College, and in 1992 he received the ALI-ABA Harrison Tweed Award for Special Merit in Continuing Legal Education.

    Galligan, Thomas C., Jr.


    Tom Galligan is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. He teaches torts, admiralty, and remedies. From 1986 until May, 1998, Galligan taught at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU. At LSU, Galligan was named the Dr. Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law and was honored by the students as the Outstanding LSU Professor six times. Galligan has published numerous articles in various journals, including the Louisiana Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, and the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. With Professor Frank L. Maraist, Galligan is the author of the treatise Louisiana Tort Law. Maraist and Galligan's co-authored scholarship has been honored by the Louisiana Bar Journal and the Tulane Law Review. Galligan now lives in Knoxville with his wife Susan and four children, Patrick, Sarah, Aisling, and Jennifer.

     

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